Bogdan Dzakovic is a 14-year veteran of the Security Division of the

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in the

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. He started off his FAA career as a field agent and

Federal Air Marshal The Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) is a United States federal law enforcement agency under the supervision of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Because of the natur ...

, then served as a Team Leader in the Air Marshal program. Since 1995, he had served as a Team Leader of the FAA's Red Team, which conducted undercover tests on airport security through simulated terrorist attacks. He testified before the

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, discussing his experience as well as FAA failures that contributed to the

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. Published book in 2016: ''Fortress of Deceit: the Story of a 9/11 Whistleblower'' , which examines the root cause of the government failures leading up to the attacks, as well as its nefarious aftermath which we are living through today.

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Newspaper article on his work
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